- volume
- [[t]vɒ̱ljuːm[/t]]
♦♦volumes
Senior officials will be discussing how the volume of sales might be reduced.
...the sheer volume of traffic and accidents.
2) N-COUNT: usu sing The volume of an object is the amount of space that it contains or occupies.It is 2,300 metres above sea level, so a given volume of air contains only about one-third as much oxygen as it would at sea level...
When egg whites are beaten they can rise to seven or eight times their original volume.
3) N-COUNT A volume is a book. [FORMAL]...a 125-page volume.
4) N-COUNT: usu supp N A volume is one book in a series of books....the first volume of his autobiography.
5) N-COUNT: usu with supp A volume is a collection of several issues of a magazine, for example all the issues for one year....bound volumes of the magazine.
6) N-UNCOUNT The volume of a radio, television, or sound system is the loudness of the sound it produces.He turned down the volume...
He came to complain about the volume of the music.
7) PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR about n If something such as an action speaks volumes about a person or thing, it gives you a lot of information about them.What you wear speaks volumes about you...
Their absence spoke volumes.
English dictionary. 2008.
